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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018

Article Excerpt: "... "This would be a long loop around the moon … It would skim the surface of the moon, go quite a bit further out into deep space and then loop back to Earth," Musk said during the teleconference. "So I'm guessing, distance-wise, maybe [300,000] or 400,000 miles [about 500,000 to 650,000 kilometers]."
The moon flight is scheduled to launch after SpaceX flies NASA astronauts to the International Space Station ..."